Man Into Woman

Lili Ilse Elvenes (Lili Elbe), born in Denmark as Einar Wegener, died in Dresden in September 1931. Pamela L Caughie, Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA, is a senior modernist scholar and gender theorist. She is founder and co-director of the Modernist Networks digital consortium and a coeditor of Woolf Online, a digital archive of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. Her most recent books include, as editor, Disciplining Modernism (2009) and Virginia Woolf Writing the World (2015). Sabine Meyer is a postdoc scholar at the Department of Northern European Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin. She was a research consultant for the 2015 film The Danish Girl and author of the most comprehensive book on Elbe to date, “Wie Lili zu einem richtigen Mädchen wurde” – Lili Elbe: Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Identität zwischen Medialisierung, Regulierung und Subjektivierung (2015).

• AcknowledgementsArchival sources Note on the EditionChronology List of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I: A Short Life of Lili ElbePart II:A Short History of SexologyPart III: Man into Woman and Modernist Life Writing Part IV: Compositional and Publication HistoryPart V: Contributors’ EssaysCorpus: Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Sex ChangeTextual NotesNew Essays on Man into Woman:Madelyn Detloff, “The Binary Bind: Inversion, Intersexuality and Interest in a Very Queer Künstlerroman”Sølve M. Holm, “Current and Historical Notions of Sexed Embodiment and Transition in Relation to Lili Elvenes”Michael Levenson, “Man into Woman: A Modernist Experimental Genre”Tim Armstrong, “Magic and Medicine: Man into Woman and Anthropology”Tobias Raun, “Getting the Lili We Deserve? Telling a Different Story of Lili Elbe through the Portraits of Gerda Wegener”Eliza Steinbock, “A Pretty Knot of Lilies: Disentangling Lili Elbe's longue durée in Pop Culture”ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Detailed but expansive – and with illuminating essays in this volume and a complementary digital archive at lilielbe.org – [the editors'] edition makes Man into Woman available in all its complexity. It both answers and raises what Lili calls “questions innumerable”.